Aviation News

Can you believe that it’s been a decade since the acclaimed aviation movie “One Six Right: The Romance of Flying” was released? In honor of the anniversary, Terwilliger Productions is releasing an even more spectacular version of the film in Blu-ray format. Producer and director Brian Terwilliger said while the movie was filmed with “a […]

A unique historical flight took place recently at the Randolph Air Force Base near San Antonio, Texas, bringing together airplanes with easily distinguishable red tails, a P-51 Mustang and a T-1, both part of red tail squadrons. The P-51 is part of the Commemorative Air Force’s Red Tail Squadron, which educates the public about the […]

The future of AgustaWestland’s AW609 civil tiltrotor program has been thrown into doubt after the crash of a prototype in Italy on Friday that killed the two test pilots on board. Radar data appears to confirm that the aircraft, Prototype 2, went down about 10 minutes after takeoff near Santhia in northern Italy, near the […]

Back in March, Harrison Ford made headlines with his emergency landing in a Ryan PT-22 on a golf course in Santa Monica, California. The forced landing was successful, and while Ford suffered serious injuries, he was back in the skies after only three months. However, it appears that he doesn’t remember all of the forced […]

The Avro Vulcan XH558, a British bomber with a beautiful delta profile and an unmistakable howling sound, has landed for the last time, concluding its “Farewell to Flight” season. The charitable organization Vulcan to the Sky Trust has operated the last of the breed, named The Spirit of Great Britain, for the past eight years, […]

A dramatic scene was captured on video today as a Boeing 767 caught fire while taxiing for departure at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Florida. Passengers could be seen evacuating via slides onto the taxiway though there are reports of injuries. Plumes of black smoke billowed from the jet as passengers streamed to safety. A […]

An Icon A5 amphibian landed in the water near the Los Angeles area beach community Hermosa Beach on Monday, causing a major commotion in the area. Emergency crews were dispatched as the airplane was thought to have crashed in the water. But instead, two people emerged and climbed up on top of the wing of […]

The U.S. Air Force has awarded an enormous contract to Northrop Grumman to replace its aging fleet of bombers. The contract covers the Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) and early production for a new Long Range Strike Bomber (LRS-B), and could be worth as much as $77 billion in 2010 dollars. The Air Force’s current […]

The Canadian government has agreed to bail out Bombardier after the company posted a bigger than expected $4.9 billion loss in the third quarter due to writedowns to its CSeries and Learjet 85 aircraft programs. The Quebec government will take a 49 percent stake in the CSeries program while the Learjet 85 program has now […]

An Army surveillance blimp broke free from its ground mooring in Maryland on Wednesday, drifting for miles over central Pennsylvania as F-16s and Air National Guard helicopters tracked it. The runaway blimp finally landed by itself 160 miles away in Montour County, Pennsylvania, after reaching a maximum altitude of about 16,000 feet and floating for […]